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Title: Quote for the Day: Do you have the gift of prayer? If you wish to acquire. . . Post by: Shin on April 17, 2011, 06:28:57 PM 'If you wish to acquire the gift of prayer, you must humbly persevere in mortifying your senses. . . I especially advise you to be very faithful to holy recollection, mortifying your eyes, your tongue and your ears, but cutting off all vain curiosity, which is often the cause of the distractions which beset you in your [spiritual] exercises.'
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Title: Re: Quote for the Day: Do you have the gift of prayer? If you wish to acquire. . . Post by: Shin on April 18, 2011, 12:19:19 AM I feel this is a very important quote.
Title: Re: Quote for the Day: Do you have the gift of prayer? If you wish to acquire. . . Post by: Therese on May 07, 2011, 08:57:30 AM Yes, very important.
Title: Re: Quote for the Day: Do you have the gift of prayer? If you wish to acquire. . . Post by: Brigid on May 07, 2011, 02:33:25 PM And very helpful.
Title: Re: Quote for the Day: Do you have the gift of prayer? If you wish to acquire. . . Post by: Shin on May 07, 2011, 02:52:37 PM Yes quite so!
How easy to overlook too. |